WIDSWire

Our semiannual newsletter highlights WIDS news, client successes and workshop schedules. Find current and archived WIDSWires here.

Spring 2010

Featured Articles:

  • A Unique Approach: Going beyond Carl D. Perkins Compliance
  • Closing the Gap in Inmate Training
  • Michener's Unique Continual Imporvement Commitment
  • Volkswagen of South Africa Embarks on $55 Million Traning Initiative

Fall 2009

Featured Articles:

  • Kansas Embarks on Massive Tech-ed Curriculum Alignment
  • Correlating Learning Objectives to State & National Standards
    Junior Achievement Works with WIDS
  • 'Green' Geothermal is Core to Indainhead's Revised Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Technology Program
  • Northern Essex's Nursing Alignment Enhances Clinical Assessment

Spring 2009

Featured Articles:

  • 'Greening' Curriculum: Green Industry Technician
  • Refining Wisconsin's Natural Resources Technician 
  • Minnesota Revises Farm Business Management Curriculum
  • Filling the Gap - New Disaster Preparedness Training for Health Care 

Fall 2008

Featured Articles:

  • WIDS Team Prepares for 2nd International User Group Nov. 6
  • The Power of a Process: Practical solutions for implementing career clusters and other industry driven standards 
  • Learning Activities for Today: Wikis, Blogs & Podcasts: Using them as part of a course or program is easier with WIDS!
  • Embracing Program Design for Continual Improvement of Curricula

Spring 2008

Featured Articles:

  • Transparency of Institutional Outcomes & Assessment
  • Online Veterinary Technician Program Built from Scratch
  • CurriculumBank: Online Curriculum Storage and Collaborative Curriculum Development
  • Strengthening Assessment and Measurement: One College's Story
  • Online Safety Modules Available to Public

Fall 2007

Featured Articles:

  • Mapping Curriculum: Four-year Institutions Seek to Better Manage Courses and Programs College-wide
  • Performanc-based Learning Changes South Africa's Business and Industry-The LR Group Uses WIDS for Training
  • A Year in the Shoes of a First-year WIDS Coach
  • Financial Education for a New Generation-NEFE's High School Financial Planning Program revised
  • Online Courses Developed to Improve Emergency Response at State and Local Levels

Spring 2007

Featured Articles:

  • Wis. technical college spearheads initative to up airport security
  • Graduating more nurses with cyber learning
  • SAIT Develops Communication 'Buy-in' Plan as Part of Implementation
  • WIDS Software Smoothes out the Bumps for one Diesel Instructor